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The Brazilian photographer Cristiano Mascaro and the Polish visual artist Sławomir Rumiak were invited to participate in an artistic project Traces of People whose objective was to discover Poland and Brazil from a foreign perspective. Together with Stephan Stroux from Germany, curator and initiator of the project, the two have collaborated since 2013 with the aim of establishing an intellectual dialogue between these two countries. The book Traces concludes the project, presenting its selected aspects and offering the artists’ reflection about their experience.

In order to resemble the structure of the project, the publication is divided into three parts, each one representing one point of view.

The book opens with the curatorial text by Stephan Stroux. As the project initiator, and the person responsible for the meeting between Mascaro and Rumiak, Stroux presents the essence of the work of each of the artists and reveals the idea behind this artistic attempt to establish new perspective on Poland and Brazil. A section dedicated to Cristiano Mascaro contains a selection of black and white photographs that the artist took in four Polish cities: Warsaw, Krakow, Gdańsk and Łódź. Without journalistic intentions, through the prism of his cultural baggage, Mascaro photographed the public and the intimate space of the inhabitants of the Polish cities, but without showing the people themselves. Instead, he used vestiges of human coexistence - personal objects, decorating elements - to build stories about the lives of his absent characters. From the asceticism of the photos of Mascaro we move to the cinematographic narration of Sławomir Rumiak. The part of the book dedicated to the Polish artist focuses on the artistic film "Macunaíma Returns to São Paulo" that Rumiak shot during his artistic residency in the largest Brazilian metropolis. The São Paulo of Rumiak is free from the crowd. The citizens of São Paulo disappear from the image leaving the space for a group of subaltern residents - the invisible ones who failed to realize the dream of wealthy life in the city. Referring to the myth of the Macuanaíma, Rumiak observes his characters and reveals their strategies of taming the city that is compared by the artist to wild and hostile nature.

"Tadeusz Kantor. Drawing – Lech Stangret"

Lech Stangret’s book is the only scientific publication in English, which covers this area of Tadeusz Kantor’s work. It was published thanks to Culture.pl’s cooperation with the Tadeusz Kantor Foundation.

Polish Cine Art, or the Cinematic Turn in Polish Contemporary Art edited by Jakub Majmurek and Łukasz Ronduda is both a manifesto and a first attempt to describe a new phenomenon that occurs on a territory shared by Polish cinema and contemporary art.

Following the release of Out of the Ordinary, Culture.pl presents another comprehensive publication on the history of Polish design. 448 pages, 64 designers, 57 chapters, 30 authors – VeryGraphic: Polish Designers of the 20th Century is the first complete work devoted to twentieth-century Polish graphic design, and was released on 25thMarch, 2015.

Three prominent Turkish chefs and one from Poland created a collection of Polish-Turkish fusion recipes that take both cuisines to new heights and places.

Cook for Book is the result of the endeavours of the people behind Project Turkey – a year-long cross-border venture of diffusing Turkish and Polish films, music, and art in both countries. 2014 marks the 600th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Poland and Turkey.

In November, 2014, Culture.pl and txt publishing have released a book devoted to the best graphic design works realised throughout the past year. The third edition of Print Control puts a spotlight on projects created in collaboration between specialists in differnt genres.

200 pages of the third Print Control yearbok present an overview of printed design.

This Polish-English monograph of Andrzej Wróblewski is the first comprehensive publication covering the artist’s creative output and impact. Extending to over 750 pages and comprising more than 860 illustrations, it contains reproductions of his works – some of which were previously unpublished, his written works, as well as essays by several prominent researchers and art historians. Avoiding Intermediary States… was published by the Andrzej Wróblewski Foundation, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the publishing house Hatje Cantz.

This photographic album in English is the first monograph of Dominik Lejman, summing up 15 years of his creative work. Since the end of the 90s, the artist has been juxtaposing painting with video projections and urban space. The publication is accompanied by a specially created website, www.paintingwithtimecode.com, on which one may watch the films discussed in the album. The book contains 130 illustrations complemented by the artist’s commentaries and statements of other creators. The publication also includes essays describing Lejman’s art written by Doris von Drathen, Anda Rottenberg and Timothy Persons. The album was published by the prestigious publishing house Hatje Kanz with support from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Berlin gallery Żak / Branicka.

Polish Design: Uncut is a unique overview of Polish design of the past decade – a period which produced some of the greatest successes in the field and garnered numerous awards, such as the Red Dot Award. Polish design continues to triumph at prestigious competitions and maintains a constant presence at the biggest design fairs (Milan, London, Berlin), reflecting the status currently enjoyed by the brightest talents in the field and their award-winning projects.

Out of the Ordinary: Polish Designers of the 20th Century

Out of the Ordinary is the first substantial overview of Polish design. It examines the work of 36 key figures, from Stanislaw Wyspianski, the early modernist furniture and interior designer, to Wojciech Wybieralski, one of the first designers to emerge from Poland's turbulent transition from a Communist to a capitalist economy in the 1990s. The book is composed of chronological sections, each introduced by a short essay discussing the works in relation to the relevant phase in Polish history.

Examples of furniture design, graphic design (including posters), textiles, clothing, ceramics and vehicle design are all included here, reproduced in more than 350 color photographs: among them, the batik textiles of Antoni Buszek; the glassware of Michal Titkow; the hand-forged metal works of Julia Keilowa; Kazimierz Zembrzuski's PM36 steam engine; Marian Sigmund's Bent Furniture chairs; the elegant animal ceramics of Mieczylaw Naruszewicz; and the women's fashionwear of Jerzy Antkowiak.

Speak the culture

The fifth book in Thorogood’s groundbreaking series of cultural guides takes Poland as its subject. Written in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Speak the Culture: Poland provides a fast track to understanding the key events, figures and customs of this richly creative country in the heart of Europe.

The book begins with an overview of the country’s cultural foundations – the history, language and identity – before moving on to Poland’s artistic achievements, from the Renaissance poetry of Mikolaj Rej to the films of Roman Polanski. The key figures of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, music, theatre and cinema are revealed succinctly and colorfully. The final section of Speak the Culture: Poland covers the country’s living culture – its religion, social mores, education, economy and more.

Only by grasping the culture of Poland will readers develop a fully rounded knowledge of this historic but little understood nation.

(A)pollonia: 21st-century Polish Drama and Texts for the Stage

Release events were held in New York City in late November for forthcoming anthologies of contemporary plays in English translation - (A)pollonia: 21st-century Polish Drama and Texts for the Stage, and Loose Screws and Other Polish Plays.

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